Training Day (DVD) Reviews

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room Ever since the FX TV show The Shield hit it big in 2002 with its gritty display of police corruption, Hollywood has been trying to find a way to replicate that success on the big screen, and despite numerous turkeys, the one truly enduring effort has to be Training Day. While ...  Read the complete review

Training Day was a film that instantly stood out to me as a must watch film due through the fact that Denzel Washington had been nominated for an Oscar for his performance in the film. Having always admired Denzel's talent as an actor, I was greatly anticipating this film. The central plot of the film is a young, slightly naive, wet ...  Read the complete review

Introduction Training Day is a police drama originally released in 2001. It was a highly successful film after it was released and received a number of good reviews from film critics especially for Denzel Washington and the role he plays in the film. For his performance in the film ,Washington won the Academy Award for Best Actor. ...  Read the complete review

Training day is a buddy cop film with a massive difference, more like an anti-buddy movie. The whole film takes place in one gritty, hard day, a training day for the rookie, teamed up with the experienced streetwise detective, he has one chance to impress and get onto his team. Denzel Washington's character is a brutal cop with a ...  Read the complete review

Training Day is a gritty, streetwise, exciting, cool and thrilling police drama. Starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. Training Day is about a LAPD cop Jake Hoyt (hawk) who goes on an evaluation day with detective Alonzo Harris (Washington) a very well respected narcotics officer, Well he's respected by fellow officers and feared by the ...  Read the complete review

Written by David Ayer and Directed by Antoine Fuqua - Training Day is a the top of its game. Quoted by the Daily Express as being "One of the best thrillers from Hollywood in many a year" And who am I to disagree! His first day. A rookie NARC (Narcotics Officer) in the form a young LA cop called Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) is ...  Read the complete review

Training Day is an anti-buddy movie if there is such a genre, it takes a new police recruit and a veteran cop and puts them together, rather than the usual happy ending, this film works due to its much more cognient grip on how life really is. Whats it about? Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) faces his first day as a cop n the mean ...  Read the complete review

Training Day is a 2001 movie in which Denzel is finally a bad guy and his performance is remarkable, winning him a well deserved Oscar. Set in Los Angeles, Training Day follows Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) who is on a training day with Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) to learn about the operations. It turns out that being a narcotics ...  Read the complete review

I first bought Training Day, which was released in 2001 on VHS video a couple of years ago for £1. At the time I'd never heard of the film but enjoyed it so much that I bought it again on DVD a couple of months ago for £1.50 on eBay. Plot ========== The film is based in LA when Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) starts his first day on ...  Read the complete review

This is one of the very few films where Denzel Washington plays the 'bad guy' and combined with an incredible performance from both him and Ethan Hawke, they contribute to an awesome cop thriller, probaly reaching my top ten list. It tells the story of an ameteur cop (Hawke) where the day arrives to prove himself that hes fit for the ...  Read the complete review

Directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer "Training Day" was one of those seminal films from 2001. It is a stylised, cool and kinetic ride that never lets up very similar in story to "Narc" but mixed with Fuquas slick direction style established in "The replacement Killers". "Training ...  Read the complete review

Training Day is easily the most entertaining and fascinating movie regarding police corruption that I've seen. Rappers have been screaming about dodgy law enforcement dealings for years, but none will tarnish the reputation of the LAPD as much as this mainstream entry (if that is at all possible, of course). The whole of Training ...  Read the complete review

~ You Wanna Go Home Or Jail? ~ I came across Training Day a few years ago when at the video shop and it is now part of my DVD collection. I am a huge fan of Denzel Washington and have seen most of his films. I picked the DVD up for £4.99 on Play.com in the summer so it maybe cheaper now. I recently watched the film again as I found my ...  Read the complete review

Training Day is a film directed by Antoine Fuqua (director of 'King Arthur' and 'Shooter'), following 24 hours in the life of LAPD 'by the book' officer Jake Hoyt (Eathan Hawk) as he spends an evaluation day with charismatic narcotics officer and highly decorated detective Alonzo Harris (the superb Denzel Washington). As Hoyt quickly ...  Read the complete review

When i was first told about this film i wasnt really interested in it that much, up until the point where my friend forced me to watch it i thought it wasnt all that good. Obdviously i was so wrong Synopsis - The film like most great film is set over the period of a day, a new police officer has been placed with a superior (Denzel) for ...  Read the complete review

Denzel Washington won the best actor award Oscar for portraying corrupt cop Alonzo Harris. In the movie there is a secondary character Jake Hoyt (Hawke). Actually Jake is the hero as Alonzo is the bent cop. Anyway the film is shot over 24 hour period. Harris works in the drug enforcement part of the LAPD. Hoyt is the new recruit in ...  Read the complete review

My next review is well another Denzel Washington film. I praised the role he played in American Gangster, but this next film was simply his best performance yet, and was dually noted when he won an academy award for best actor. I'm reviewing training day, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke and Eva Mendez. The ...  Read the complete review

I heard about this film a while ago now and my fiancé said it was one of the best films he had seen in a long time or that is how he remembers he felt when he watched it a couple of years ago. This was strange that he had watched a film that I hadn’t as it is usually the other way around so when I saw that my family had the DVD I decided to ...  Read the complete review

Training Day is set in Los Angeles over the period of 24 hours. Denzil Washington and Ethan Hawk are central characters. They are Alonzo Harris and Jake Hoyt. Jake is assigned to Alonzo to teach him the job of narcotics officer. As they talk Alonzo likes the younger cop, he sees a lot of him in Jake. Once Alonzo was honest, followed ...  Read the complete review

When I think of the trouble I went to, in order to get a copy of this movie on DVD, I could weep. It transpires that all the major video rental outlets are currently in the midst of a big time quarrel with Warner Bros regarding the amount of money they charge for their rental only DVDs. Despite the movie’s retail release several weeks ago, ...  Read the complete review